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It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) easy guitar chords by
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

1965Folk
5.0 (3)
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Darkness at the break of noon
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Shadows even the silver spoon
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The handmade blade, the child's balloon
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Eclipses both the sun and moon
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To understand you know too soon
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There is no sense in trying
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Verse 2
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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
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Suicide remarks are torn
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From the fool's gold mouthpiece
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The hollow horn plays wasted words
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Proves to warn that he not busy being born
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Is busy dying
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Verse 3
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Temptation's page flies out the door
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You follow, find yourself at war
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Watch waterfalls of pity roar
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You feel to moan but unlike before
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You discover that you'd just be
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One more person crying
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Chorus 1
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So don't fear if you hear
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A foreign sound to your ear
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It's al right, Ma,
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I'm only sighing
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Verse 4
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As some warn victory, some downfall
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Private reasons great or small
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Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
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To make all that should be killed to crawl
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While others say don't hate nothing at all
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Except hatred
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Verse 5
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Disillusioned words like bullets bark
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As human gods aim for their mark
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Made everything from toy guns that spark
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To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
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It's easy to see without looking too far
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That not much is really sacred
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Verse 6
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While preachers preach of evil fates
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Teachers teach that knowledge waits
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Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
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Goodness hides behind its gates
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But even the president of the United States
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Sometimes must have to stand naked
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Chorus 2
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An' though the rules of the road
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have been lodged
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It's only people's games
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that you got to dodge
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And it's al right, Ma, I can make it
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Verse 7
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Advertising signs that con you

Into thinking you're the one
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That can do what's never been done
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That can win what's never been won
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Meantime life outside goes on
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All around you
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Verse 8
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You lose yourself, you reappear
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You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
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Alone you stand with nobody near
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When a trembling distant voice, unclear
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Startles your sleeping ears to hear

That somebody thinks
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they really found you
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Verse 9
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A question in your nerves is lit
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Yet you know there is
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no answer fit to satisfy

Insure you not to quit
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To keep it in your mind and not fergit
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That it is not he or she or them or it
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That you belong to
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Chorus 3
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Although the masters make the rules
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For the wise men and the fools
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I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
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Verse 10
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For them that must obey authority
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That they do not respect in any degree
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Who despise their jobs, their destinies
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Speak jealously of them that are free
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Do what they do just to be

nothing more than something
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they invest in
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Verse 11
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While some on principles baptized
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To strict party platform ties
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Social clubs in drag disguise
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Outsiders they can freely criticize
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Tell nothing except who to idolize
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And then say God bless him
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Verse 12
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While one who sings with his tongue on fire
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Gargles in the rat race choir
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Bent out of shape from society's pliers
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Cares not to come up any higher
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But rather get you down
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in the hole that he's in
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Chorus 4
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But I mean no harm nor put fault
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On anyone that lives in a vault
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But it's al right, Ma, if I can't please him
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Verse 13
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Old lady judges watch people in pairs
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Limited in sex, they dare
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To push fake morals, insult and stare
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While money doesn't talk, it swears
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Obscenity, who really cares

Propaganda, all is
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phony
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Verse 14
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While them that defend what they cannot see
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With a killer's pride, security
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It blows the minds most bitterly
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For them that think death's honesty
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Won't fall upon them naturally
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Life sometimes must get lonely
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Verse 15
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My eyes collide head-on
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with stuffed graveyards

False gods, I scuff
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At pettiness which plays so rough
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Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
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Kick my legs to crash it off
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Say okay I have had enough
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What else can you show me
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Chorus 5
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And if my thought-dreams could be seen
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They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
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But it's al right, Ma, it's life, and life only
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